| Example in Dutch | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Je zult wel veel trots moeten wegslikken aangezien je één van de enige normale mensen in de groep bent. | Well, you must have to swallow a lot of pride, being one of the only normal humans in the group. |
| Alles wat we weggeslikt, verdoezeld, genegeerd en niet opgelost hebben steekt opeens weer de kop op. | It feels like everything we swallowed down or papered over or just chose to ignore and put off fixing is coming out to haunt us. |
| Zou je 'n blinde gids volgen... die muggen zift, maar 'n kameel wegslikt? | Would you follow blind guides which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel? |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | ابتلع,ازدرد, بلع, جرع | Azeri | udmaq |
| Catalan | engolir | English | swallow |
| Esperanto | engluti, forgluti, gluti | Faroese | svølgja |
| Finnish | nielaista, nieleskellä, niellä | French | avaler, ingurgiter |
| German | schlucken, verschlucken | Greek | καταπίνω, ρουφώ |
| Hebrew | בלע | Hungarian | nyel |
| Icelandic | kyngja, svelgja | Indonesian | mencaplok, menelan, menelan mentah-mentah, telan |
| Italian | deglutire, inghiottire, ingoiare | Japanese | 飲み込む, 嚥下 |
| Lithuanian | nuryti, praryti | Macedonian | голта, голтне, проголта |
| Maltese | bela' | Norwegian | svelge |
| Polish | nałykać, pochłonąć, połknąć, połykać, przełknąć, przełykać | Portuguese | deglutir, engolir |
| Quechua | millp'uy | Romanian | înghiți |
| Russian | глотать, глотнуть, проглатывать, проглотить, сглатывать, сглотнуть | Spanish | deglutir, tragarse |
| Swedish | svälja, svälla | Thai | กลืน |
| Turkish | sineye çekmek, yutkunmak, yutmak, yutturulmak | Vietnamese | nuốt |